Improvement in cows -tail holders



N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITNDGRAPHER WASHINGTON D C @mi @Sie @WnjLiAM 3H. GRAY, on ASHFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

3 (Letters Patent I\Ilo.`112,58?, dated March 14 1871'.

l VThe lsohedlule referred to; in these Letters Patent and making parl: of the same.

, 1 l ni l field, in the county of Frenklinend State of Messa,- ,ehnsettsfhave inventeda. new and improved Oows- Tail Holder; and I do hereby deelere the following to `be al, full, clear', andexact description of the seme,

reference beingibald to the accompanying drewing mking a. part of this specification, in"whieh 3 The gure is a. `plein view.

l This invention has "forl its object" to prevent cows t i from switehingtheir:tsilsenfthe Afeces'oftliose milking Hthem; and l l l ItQconsists,essentially-iin a pair of'pineers, which i are intended to befastenedto `the shank-of the eows `hind` leg,t he'points oi' the pineers shutting in front of a are the branches of a. `pair of pineers;`

`bere'knobs at oneendof the pincers; and

c arehandles at the other end. A L Thepincers arebowed betweenthe knobs b and the pivot d, so esV to give room forthe tendon in the shank -of the covts leg, and are proi/ided with `a. spring,e

whose tendency is to keep the pine'ers closed.

\ A comb, h, iseither riveted or' east to the outside of one of the branches a, between the handle and the bowedpart thereof'. Y

Before sitting down to lVmilk the cow the operator should strike the comb h into one side of the tuft of bain at the end of theoows teil, and then turn the pineers over, which makes a half turn in the tui-t and festens it rmlyto the pineers. Y

'The next thing is to open the pinoers, place the knobs et 4eaehfside of the shank beyond the tendon, andthen allow4 the pincers to close.

In this wey the cows teil is'so firmly held that she eennot switch it until such time as the pincers are removed from the leg and i thetatil disengaged from the comb.

Having thus described my invention, l j' What I'olaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the pincers a, knobs b, spring e, and comb h, as specified.

, WILLAM H. GRAY. Witnesses:

SoLoN C. KEMON, THOMAS D. DfOUnAND. 

